A new toy for the retiree!

So several weeks back, my stepson presented a Roku to my oldest granddaughter as a birthday gift on her 19th birthday. I quickly took an interest in this as both stepsons are techy guys and I knew they’d give me the low down on what it was and why I should have one. If there was ever a time in my life to discover this – a streaming stick with hundreds, no probably thousands of movies and TV series that I could stream through a dozen or so sources, this was it. Not one to shy away from technology (though admittedly I was among the last of my friends and family to learn to text after I realized it wasn’t just a fad), I hopped on Amazon, got out my $50 gift card (Christmas gift) and ordered via my Amazon Prime – incidentally one of those aforementioned streaming sources that I’ve had access to via Prime but was unable to tap into! Oh joy, oh bliss. Oh crap! I couldn’t get it to install on the final step. The booklet was more of an insert and didn’t talk about error code 011. After trying to search out the answer online or via their LIVE CHAT channel (68th in line) I just called India (I’m impatient). I spoke to a nice gentleman who explained that I needed to have my router set to a special security code and my encryption setting needed to be tweaked as well. “Okay” I thought. So I called Comcast/Xfininty and was connected to Clayton (coincidentally the name of my first love, but I digress). Clayton was friggin’ brilliant and within minutes had changed those settings remotely and viola! I had a working Roku! Now the choices, the choice were…..infinite. What to do, what to watch first?

I started with “Orange is the New Black” and LOVE IT. Spence and I are retired and in the midst of a cold Michigan winter and with our little pal Roku, have so much to watch. Put a fire in the fireplace, pour a glass of wine and snuggle with the cats and hunker down as the snow fall.